# Let's play the 'the ABC band name" game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726 "2006-01-19T21:55:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 28
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/541 "2006-02-01T18:19:32Z")
.38 Special (Not sure if that counts, saw it on an album cover once) ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/542 "2006-02-01T18:20:38Z")
I meant spelled out as Thirty Eight Special. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/543 "2006-02-01T18:21:33Z")
Surprised we haven’t had **T** en Years After yet! ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/544 "2006-02-01T18:29:05Z")
Umphrey’s McGee ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/545 "2006-02-01T18:45:18Z")
The [Venusians](http://www.associatedentertainment.com/aec/Music/Techno/Venusians) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/546 "2006-02-01T18:46:17Z")
**W** ishbone Ash ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/547 "2006-02-01T19:49:28Z")
Xero ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/548 "2006-02-01T20:16:40Z")
**Y** ezda Urfa ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/549 "2006-02-01T20:49:40Z")
[Zoo, the](http://www.freakemporium.com/site/release/ZOCD009/releasepage.html) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/550 "2006-02-01T21:12:33Z")
Aerosmith (surprised it’s still available). ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/551 "2006-02-01T21:20:30Z")
You think that’s surprising? How about: The **B** eatles ? ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/552 "2006-02-01T21:55:31Z")
New page update: Abba Abba (duplicate, but neither caught, nor replaced) ABC Abraxas Pool Accept AC/DC Ace Of Base Aerosmith Air Supply Alice in Chains Alkaline Trio Allman Brothers Band Alphaville America Amon Duul Aquarium Rescue Unit Armstrong, Louis (disallowed) Asia Ass Ponys, the Atahualpa Atlanta Rhythm Section Atomic Rooster Audioslave B. B. King (who, being a solo act, shouldn’t count!) Bachman-Turner Overdrive Bananarama Barenaked Ladies Basque Beatles, the Big Country Black Eyed Peas Blackmore’s Rainbow Black Oak Arkansas Black Sabbath Blind Faith Blondie Blood, Sweat & Tears Blue Oyster Cult Blue Suede Blues Project Blur Bonzo Dog Band Brainticket Buffalo Springfield Byrds, the Can Candidate Cantabile Cap’n Geech & The Shrimp Shack Shooters Captain Beefheart Captain Beyond Carmel Cary Brothers Charlatans, the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies Chicago Clash, the Cloldplay Commodores, the Country Joe and The Fish Cowsills, the Creedence Clearwater Revival Crosby, Stills Nash & Young Crowded House Cure, the Curved Air Dandy Warhols, the dBs, the Dead Can Dance Dead Kennedys, the Deaf School Death Cab for Cutie Deep Purple del Amitri Depeche Mode Derek & the Dominoes Devo Digable Planets Dio Dire Straits Dirt Band, the (Dixie) Dregs, the Don and Dewey Doobie Brothers, the Dr. Strangely Strange Drifters, the Drivin’ & Cryin’ Eagles Earth, Wind & Fire Echo & the Bunnymen Egg Ekoostic Hookah Elbow Electric Bonsai Band Electric Light Orchestra Electric Prunes, the Elephant’s Memory Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) Emotions, the Endangered Species Enigma Erasure Eurythmics Evanescence Everly Brothers, the Everything But The Girl Fairport Convention Faster Pussycat Fear Feelies, the Ferrante and Teicher Firm, the Five for Fighting Flying Burrito Brothers Foghat Ford and the Fanatics, Neal Foreigner Fotheringay Fountains of Wayne Four Seasons, the Freddy Fender Freddy Jones Band, the Fruup Fugazi Fugs, the Gamma Garbage / Goldfrapp Genesis Gentle Giant Geronimo Jackson Gilgamesh Gin Blossoms Godsmack Go-Go’s , the (duplicate, but replaced) Go-Gos, the Golden Earring Goldfinger Gong Gov’t Mule Grand Funk Railroad Grass Roots, the Grateful Dead Grinderswitch Grobschnitt Gryphon Guess Who, the Hamilton, Joe Frank, and Reynolds Hampton’s Grease Band Happy the Man Hatfield and the North Harvey Danger Hawkwind Hayseed Dixie Head East Healey Band, Jeff Heart Hendrix Experience, the Jimi Henry Cow Hi-Fives, the Hole Hollies, the Hot Tuna Housemartins Hues Corporation Humble Pie Icicle Works Ides Of March Idle Race If Iggy and the Stooges Ike & Tina Turner Revue Impressions, the Imusici Incredible String Band Incubus Indigo Girls Ink Spots, the Innocent Criminals, the Insane Clown Posse Interpol INXS Iron & Wine Iron Butterfly Isley Brothers, the It’s a Beautiful Day It’s a Beautiful Day (duplicate, but replaced) J. Geils Band Jackal (is this Jackyl?) Jackson Five, the Jackson, Joe (another solo not caught or replaced) Jacob Fred Jazz Oddysey James Gang Jason and the Scorchers Jay & the Techniques Jayhawks, the Jean Loves Jezebel Jefferson Aircraft (Airplane and/or Starship) Jesus Jones Jethro Tull Jets, the Jimmie’s Chicken Shack Jo Jo Gunne Joan Jett (Uhhhh, I give up) John Entwistle Band, the (which should have been under E, but oh well…) Journey Joy Of Cooking Judas Priest Kansas Kangaroo Court Kassabian Kayak Kentucky Headhunters Killing Joke King Crimson Kingsmen, the King’s X Kinks, the Kinks, the (uncaught duplicate) Klaatu Knack, the Knickerbockers, the Korn Kottonmouth Kings Kraftwerk L7 Laibach La’s, the Led Zeppelin Left Banke Lighthouse Little Feat Little River Band Live Living Colour Looking Glass Los Lobos Los Lonely Boys Lothar and the Hand People Lounge Lizards Loverboy Lunasa Luscious Jackson Lynyrd Skynyrd Machines (of Loving Grace), the Magma Marcy Playground Marillion Marshall Tucker Band, the Matching Mole Max Webster Meat Puppets, the Meco Mediaeval Babes Metallica Midnight Oil Mike and the Mechanics moe. Morcheeba Mott The Hoople Move, the Mudvayne My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult Nashville Pussy Nazareth Nazz, the Neil Young (okay, NO MORE SOLO ACTS) Nektar New Christy Minstrels, the New Order New Riders of the Purple Sage New Seekers, the Nice, the Nickelback Nine Inch Nails Nirvana Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Nixons, the North Mississippi All-Stars NRBQ Nuclear Valdez Nylons, the OAR Oberkampf Odd Girl Out Ohio Players, the Oingo Boingo Ojos de Brujo Old and In The Way Old 97’s Oleander One Bad Pig Orb, the Orgy Orleans Osanna Osibisa Osmonds, the Otis Clay Outlaws, the Outlaws, the (duplicate, but replaced) Oysterhead Ozark Mountain Daredevils Ozric Tentacles Parliament Parsons Project, the Alan Particle Partridge Family, the Pearl Jam Pentangle Pet Shop Boys Phish Pink Floyd Pink Martini Pipkins, the Pixies Planet P Project Plasmatics, the Plus Tech Squeezebox Pogues, the Poi Dog Pondering Police, the Porcupine Tree Procol Harum Q Qkumba Zoo Q-Tips, the Quarrymen, the Quarter After, the Quarterflash Quartermass Queen Queens of the Stone Age Queensrÿche Question Mark and the Mysterians Quicksilver Messenger Service Quiet Riot Quiet Sun Quill, the Quincy Punx Quintana and Speer Quintessence Quitter R.E.M. Radiohead Rammstein Ramones, the Randy & the Rainbows Rare Bird Real Mackenzies, the Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Riders Relient K Renaissance Replacements, the Ride Rocket From The Crypt Rolling Stones, the Ronettes, the Roxette Roxy Music Rubicon Rutles, the Santana Sha Na Na Shot In The Dark Silver Apples Silver Jews, the Skatalites, the Slap Happy Sly and the Family Stone Smith Group, the Patti Soft Cell Soft Machine, the Sonic Youth Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes Sparks Stampeders, the Stealers Wheel Steeleye Span Steely Dan String Cheese Incident Strokes, the Sugarloaf Talking Heads Tangerine Dream Tantric Tears for Fears Temptations Ten Years After The The (or would that be The, the) Thievery Corporation .38 Special Thompson Twins Thousand Foot Krutch Throbbing Gristle Thunderclap Newman 'Til Tuesday Tin Machine Traffic Train Travellling Wilburys Tremolos, the Trucks Band, Derek Tycoon U2 U2 (duplicate not caught due to not being listed in the first recap) Ub40 Ugly Americans Ugly Kid Joe U.K. Ultimate Spinach Ultramarine Ultravox Umphrey’s McGee Uncanny X-Men Uncle Bonsai UnderOath Undisputed Truth United States of America Univers Zero Urge Overkill Uriah Heep Used, the Utfo Vacant Fear Centre Van der Graaf Generator Van Halen Vanilla Fudge V.A.S.T. Velvet Underground Vengaboys, the Ventures, the (duplicate, but replaced) Ventures, the Venusians Veruca Salt Verve, the Verve Pipe Village People Vinegar Joe Vixen Violent Femmes, the Vipers, the Vogues, the Vultures Wallenstein Wallflowers, the Wall of Voodoo War Weather Report Weavers, the Ween Weezer Weidorje West, Bruce and Laing Wet Willie Whiskeytown Who, the Widespread Panic Wilco Willie and the Poor Boys Wishbone Ash Wizzard Wolftone Woodentops, the X X (duplicate, but replaced) Xeno Xentrix Xero XfactorX Xhol Xinlisupreme Xiu Xiu X-legged Sally xmilk X-mob X-Pensive Winos (Keith Richards’ other band) X-Ray Spex Xscape XTC XTC (duplicate, but used because of 2 "X"s in round 1) X-Wife Xylon Xymox Xzibit Y&T Frankie Yankovic and his Yanks Yardbirds, the Yaz Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Yell County Yellow Balloon Yellowbelly Yellowcard Yellowjackets, the yeP! Yes Yezda Urfa Yin Yang Twins Yog Sothoth Yo La Tengo Yonder Mountain String Band Youngbloods, the Yummy Fur Zager & Evans Zao (Fr.) Zap Mama Zappa, Frank (disallowed) Zebra Zebra (duplicate, neither caught nor replaced) Zebrahead Zen Tricksters, the Zephyr Zero Zhane Zig Zig Sputnik Zilla Zoetrope Zombies, the Zombies, the (duplicate, but replaced) Zoo, the Zwan Zydeco Dots Zydeco Flames ZZ Top I added Crosby, Stills Nash and Young in keeping with the latest “theme”. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/553 "2006-02-01T22:30:15Z")
All right then…the **D** oors! ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/554 "2006-02-01T22:35:59Z")
the **E** asybeats! (I knew that Sooner or Later, I’d get a chance to post 'em!) ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/555 "2006-02-01T23:00:38Z")
Fleetwood Mac ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/556 "2006-02-01T23:59:13Z")
Gravity Kills ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/557 "2006-02-02T00:20:45Z")
Hootie & the Blowfish ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/558 "2006-02-02T01:25:16Z")
Iron Maiden ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/559 "2006-02-02T01:38:50Z")
Jan and Dean ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/560 "2006-02-02T01:51:12Z")
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